Evelio Villarreal is currently the Director of Bands at Plano East and serves as cluster leader for the East Cluster Band Program. Prior to his appointment as Director of Bands, he served as an Associate Director and Marching Band Coordinator at Plano East. Mr. Villarreal previously has been a band director in the Duncanville, Austin and San Angelo Independent School Districts and has served on the percussion staff of the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps from Rockford, Illinois.

Bands under his direction have consistently been awarded the “Sweepstakes Award” for Superior Ratings in University Interscholastic League Marching, Concert and Sight Reading contests and been named “Best In Class” at nationally adjudicated festivals throughout the United States. The Plano East Wind Ensemble was named a finalist in Class 5A Honor Band competition by the Texas Music Educators Association in 2006, 2008 and 2012 and selected as a “National Winner” by the National Wind Band Honors Project in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Percussion ensembles under his direction have performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention and the National Percussion Festival.

Mr. Villarreal is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, Kappa Kappa Psi Honorary Band Fraternity, Percussive Arts Society and Phi Beta Mu International Band Fraternity. In 2000, he was selected for induction into the American School Band Directors Association, which honors outstanding band directors in the United States. In 2006, Mr. Villarreal was awarded the Legion of Honor by the John Philip Sousa Foundation for excellence in teaching and contributions to high school bands. He currently serves on the State Board of the Texas Music Educators Association as President of TMEA Region XXIV and the UIL Region 25 Music Advisory Committee. Mr. Villarreal is a multi-year honoree of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and was honored in 2013 with a Honorary Lifetime Membership by the Plano East PTA. He maintains an active schedule as a clinician, arranger, adjudicator and is an educational artist/endorser for Innovative Percussion, Incorporated.

Mr. Villarreal is an education/endorser for Innovative Percussion, Incorporated and a contributing author of the band method book, Essential Musicianship for Band, published by the Hal Leonard Corporation.

Mr. Villarreal holds the Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Angelo State University and a Master of Music Degree from Texas A&M-Commerce. Mr. Villarreal’s wife Abby, is the Director of Bands at Otto Middle School. They have two daughters who are Plano East Band alumni. Melissa is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington and Rebecca is a Music Education Major at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.

John Brennan is currently the Associate Director of Bands at Plano East Senior High. His duties at Plano East include conducting the Jazz Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Percussion Ensemble, team teaching the Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, Varsity Band, Marching Band and assisting with all aspects of the band program at Plano East. Prior to his appointment to the band staff at Plano East, Mr. Brennan was the percussion specialist for the Plano East Cluster schools for three years.

Bands under his direction have been consistent winners of the University Interscholastic League Sweepstakes Award for Superior Ratings in Concert Performance and Sight Reading and named “Best In Class” at nationally adjudicated festivals in Orlando, Florida, Breckenridge, Colorado, San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas. In 2006, the Plano East Percussion Ensemble was one of three high school ensembles selected to perform at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Austin, Texas.

Mr. Brennan consults and writes for the Williams, and McMillen High School drumlines, in addition to writing for the award-winning Plano East Drumline. He also writes marching percussion arrangements for many top high schools throughout the United States. Mr. Brennan was a member of the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps from Rosemont, Illinois where he marched in the bass drum and tenor lines from 1992 to 1995 and afterwards, spent eleven years on the Cavalier’s percussion staff as an instructor. He continues to be active in the drum corps activity as an instructor and consultant for the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps.

A published author, he has written several articles for Percussive Notes magazine on marching percussion. Mr. Brennan is an artist/endorser for the Yamaha Corporation of America, Remo USA, Avedis Zildjian Company and Innovative Percussion, Incorporated. He holds the Bachelors Degree in Music Education from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana where he studied percussion extensively with Mr. Kenneth Green and a Masters Degree in Percussion Performance at Texas A&M-Commerce.

He is an active clinician, adjudicator, and performer throughout the United States and holds professional memberships in the Texas Music Educators Association, Percussive Arts Society and Phi Mu Alpha.

Lee Redfearn III is in his second year of teaching as the Associate Director of Bands at Plano East Senior High. His duties at Plano East include conducting the Concert and Varsity Bands, team teaching the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Marching Band and assisting with all aspects of the band program at Plano East.

Under his direction, the Plano East Concert and Varsity Band were awarded the UIL Sweepstakes Award for Superior Ratings in Concert Performance and Sight Reading along with earning Superior Ratings at the South Coast Music Festival in Corpus Christi.

Mr. Redfearn attended Langham Creek High School, where he performed with the Symphonic Band at the 2005 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois and at the 2007 Texas Music Educators Association Convention as a member of the 5A Honor Band. While at the University of Houston, he was principal of the Wind Ensemble and served in that role at their most recent performance at TMEA in 2011. As a member of the University of Houston Jazz Orchestra, he performed with artists such as trombonist Andy Martin and saxophonist Seamus Blake.

Mr. Redfearn is a former member of two nationally-recognized saxophone quartets, Paradigm and Blue Static. The Blue Static Saxophone Quartet performed in many prestigious events including the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Competition where they were awarded the Silver Medal in the Wind Division in 2011. The quartet is also featured with the Moores School of Music Wind Ensemble on an album of wind ensemble compositions by Nicolas Flagello and Arnold Rosner, on Naxos Records which is now available on iTunes. He has participated and performed in masterclasses with saxophonist Dr. Otis Murphy as well as renowned composer Christian Lauba and Saxophonist Richard Ducros.

Mr. Redfearn is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Houston, Moores School of Music with Bachelor Degrees in Music Education and Saxophone Performance. His professional affiliations include the Texas Music Educators Association, North American Saxophone Alliance, Kappa Kappa Psi, Honorary Band Fraternity and Pi Kappa Lambda, National Music Honor Society.